Printable ModeFaptele Apostolilor 8:27
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8:27 Filip s-a sculat şi a plecat. Şi iată că un Etiopian, un famen cu mare putere la împărăteasa Candace a Etiopienilor, şi îngrijitorul tuturor vistieriilor ei, venit la Ierusalim ca să se închine, Filip s-a sculat şi a plecat. [,,El s-a sculat şi a plecat”, KJV]. Imediata lui ascultare descoperă lipsa oricărei îndoieli cu privire la autenticitatea soliei pe care o primise. Etiopian. [,,Un om din Etiopia”, KJV]. Etiopia, ca şi Cuş din VT, este un nume general dat ţării la sud de întâia cataractă a Nilului şi extinzându-se în Etiopia modernă. Partea ei nordică era marele regat Meroe în valea superioară a Nilului, care a fost cârmuită de regine în decursul unei lungi perioade de timp şi e foarte probabil ca eunucul să fi venit din regatul acesta. Legătura lui cu poporul iudeu prezintă multe puncte de interes. Potrivit cu Scrisoarea lui Aristeas 13, în decursul domniei unuia din faraoni numit Psametic (poate Psametic II, 594-588 î.Hr.) o unitate de iudei a fost trimisă în Egipt pentru a ajuta într-o campanie contra Etiopiei. Influenţe iudaice fără îndoială fuseseră la lucru în regiunea aceea de secole. Lucrul acesta poate fi reflectat în lucrarea curajoasă a unui eunuc etiopian timpuriu Ebed – Melec, pe vremea lui Ieremia (cap. 38,7-13; 39,15-18). Chiar şi mai de timpuriu evreii aşteptaseră şi văzuseră administrarea etiopienilor în comunitatea lor (Psalmi 68,31; 87,4). Famen. [,,Eunuc”, KJV; Nitz]. Vezi Estera 1,10; 2,3; Matei 19,12. Mare putere. [,,Mare autoritate”, KJV]. Gr. dunastes, ,,principe”, ,,potentat”, ,,slujbaş superior”. Litera legii deuteronomice (vezi Deut. 23,1) era explicită cu privire la excluderea eunucilor [,,famenilor”] din sanctuarul lui Dumnezeu, dar lucrul acesta a fost fără învoială modificat în practică. Admiterea eunucului păzitori ai Sabatului în rândurile poporului lui Dumnezeu e făgăduită de Isaia (cp. 56,4). Rangul, rasa şi starea fizică nu sunt factori în admiterea în familia Tatălui nostru ceresc (Gal. 3,28.29; Col. 3,10.11). Candace. Acesta pare să fi fost un nume sau un titlu dinastic, ca Faraon sau Ptolemeu în Egipt şi Cezar la romani şi nu numele personal al unei regine aparte. Numele apare în Strabo, Geography xvii.1.54; şi Dio Cassius, History, liv. 5.4-6. După Eusebiu (c. anul 325 d.Hr.) Etiopia era încă sub domnia unei regine pe vremea sa (The Ecclesiastical History ii.1.13). Visteriilor. [,,Tezaurului”, KJV; Nitz]. Gr. gaza, ,,tezaurul regal”, ,,tezaur”, un cuvânt de origine persană care intra în uz cam pe vremea aceasta la scriitorii greci şi latini (Cicero De officiis ii.22 [76]). Traducătorii LXX l-au folosit în Ezra 5,17; 6,1; 7,21; Isa. 39,2. Nu e găsit în altă parte în NT, dar o formă compusă e folosită cu privire la tezaurul Templului (Luca 21,1). Filip întâlneşte un om care poartă grijă de gaza, tezaur. Evanghelistul îl ajută să găsească un tezaur, la fel cum omul din parabola din Matei 13,44 a găsit o comoară, căutând-o sârguincios. Să se închine. Pare că eunucul acesta era un prozelit circumcis al neprihănirii (vezi Vol. V, p.63) care vizita Ierusalimul ca să se închine la Templu. Prozeliţi, ca şi iudei, veneau la Ierusalim pentru scopul acesta, după cum se poate vedea din enumerarea celor prezenţi la Ziua Cincizecimii (Fapte 2,10). Potrivit cu Ioan 12,20, greci veneau la sărbătorile de la Ierusalim. Eunucul venise la Ierusalim în căutarea unei binecuvântări, dar înainte de a ajunge acasă, el urmează să primească una care întrece toate aşteptările sale. Vezi Vol. IV, p.27-30. |
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Special note for ANDROID SmartPhones
I recommend to download PhoneMe emulator for Android from here.
Especially I recommend phoneME Advanced - Foundation Profile + MIDP High Resolution b168 rev20547 from here, or from here.
Then you have to build your application, to transfer the .jar and .jad files on your mobile phone and run using this nice emulator.
1. Install a Zip Utility from Android Market.
2. Install a File Manager from Android Market.
3. Download and install PhoneMe, as mentioned above.
4. Build your application by using Download Multilingual Service or Dynamic Download (zip).
5. Copy the zip file into your Android Phone and unzip the content in a folder, and then write down the path to the unzipped files and the name of the .jad file.
6. Launch PhoneMe from your smartphone.
7. Inside PhoneMe, write to the main window the path and the name to the .jad file, above mentioned. Will look something like: file:///mnt/sd/download/BiblePhone.jad and then press enter.
8. The application will be installed, and next a hyperlink will be available below the above mentioned textbox. On this way you can install as many of MIDP application you like on your Android Phone.
How to install the application in Java Mobile enabled phones
It is possible now to have the Holy Scriptures on your mobile phone and to read
it wherever you are due to the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP)
technology in 1.0 and 2.0 versions, developed for Java applications.
A good advice is to try in the beginning the MIDP 1.0 / 128 Kbytes version, and
progressively to advance to MIDP 2.0 and larger volumes (512 Kbytes or more).
The application is available for MIDP 2.0, MIDP 1.0. You have only to select one
table on the field MIDP2.0 or MIDP1.0, according to the desired Bible version.
Then, you shall make a click on the JAR (Java Archive) file in order to obtain
the software to be installed on your mobile phone.
I recommend you to start with STARTER(MIDP1.0old) edition, then to continue with
INTERMEDIATE(MIDP1.0), and in the end, if the mobile phone supports this thing,
to try to install the ADVANCED (MIDP2.0) edition. Also, start with 128 kbytes
volumes, continue with 512 kbytes, and at the end try the version in one file.
There are cases where the mobile phone requires so called JAD (Java Descriptor)
files. These JAD files has to be
uploaded, on this case, together with the desired JAR files(s).
There are different methods to download the applications in your mobile phone as
follows:
1. Directly from Internet by using a WAP or GPRS connection
2. By using the infrared port of the mobile phone
3. By wireless Bluetooth access to the mobile phone
4. By cable link between PC ad mobile phone
5. If none from the above cases are valid
Next, we shall examine each case in order to have a successfully installation of
the software.
1. Directly from Internet by using a WAP or GPRS connection
If your have Internet access on your mobile phone (e.g. WAP or GPRS), it is
enough to access
https://biblephone.intercer.net/wap/ from the browser of the mobile phone,
and to access the desired Bible version, and then to make an option about
MIDP1.0 or MIDP2.0, and finally to select the desired module (e.g. one or more).
After the last selection, the desired version will be downloaded on your mobile
phone.
Many phones have only this option for installing JAVA appplications.
2. By using the infrared port of the mobile phone
Sometimes there is a need for a special uploader software for specific mobile
phones.
If you don't have access to Internet directly from your mobile phone, then you
shall have to pass to this step requiring to have infrared ports on your mobile
phone and on the computer.
a. On this case, you will download the application by using the computer from
the Internet (i.e. JAR files).
b. Once the application is downloaded (preferable on the desktop) you will have
to activate the infrared port on the mobile phone and align it with the infrared
port of the computer (preferable laptop).
c. Then a window will appear asking what file you want to send to the mobile
phone. Next, you will select the downloaded JAR file, and after OK, the mobile
phone will ask you if you want to load that file. You say YES and the
application will be downloaded on your mobile phone.
d. Probably, you will be asked by the mobile phone where you want to save it (e.g.
on the games or applications directories). After you made this selection, the
file will be ready to be loaded for run.
The displaying preference can be set inside the application in order to have
larger fonts, full screen display etc.
3. By wireless Bluetooth access to the mobile phone
Sometimes there is a need for a special uploader software for specific mobile
phones.
This situation is similar with the infrared case. You have only to activate
Bluetooth access on your mobile phone (check if exists) and on the computer (check
if exists).
4. By cable link between PC ad mobile phone
Sometimes there is a need for a special uploader software for specific
mobile phones.
On this case the steps are as follows:
a. On this case, you will download the application by using the computer from
the Internet (i.e. JAR files).
b. Once the application is downloaded (preferable on the desktop) you will have
to set up the wired connection between the mobile phone and the computer. Next,
you will start the synchronization / data transfer application and download the
JAR file in your mobile phone. Surely, you will have to consult the CD of your
mobile phone.
c. By this application you shall transfer into your mobile phone the JAR file in
the games or applications directories. Next, you will have to select for run the
JAR desired file.
5. If none from the above cases are valid
On this unhappy case, I recommend you to find a friend with a laptop having
infrared / Bluetooth capabilities, or to buy a data link cable, or to change
your current model of mobile phone.
Unfortunately, some models of mobile phones require only WAP/GPRS in order to
download and run Java applications.
Sometimes there is a need for a special uploader software for specific mobile
phones. Therefore check the documentation of them and also the page for specific
models.
Why so many versions? Simple, because not all the mobile phones support the
Bible in one file with MIDP 2.0 (the most advanced for the time being).
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